Born in Novi Sad in 1952. He graduated from the Novi Sad Faculty of Law in 1975. In 1978 he earned his LL.M. degree from the Belgrade Law Faculty with thesis “International Legal Framework for Utilization of International Rivers and Lakes for Irrigation and Production of Hydroelectric Power”. In 1981 he defended doctoral dissertation “Internationally Wrongful Act as a Source of International State Responsibility” at the same law faculty. In 1980 he was elected for the assistant at the Novi Sad Faculty of Law and promoted to the position of assistant professor in 1982. In 1987 he was elected for the associate professor and in 1992 for the full professor. He teaches courses in Public International Law and International Relations.

Professor Rodoljub Etinski attended academic advancement programmes at the Hague Academy for International Law and London University.

He served as the Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad. He held position of the Chief Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of FR Yugoslavia (1994-2000). He acted as the Agent of FR Yugoslavia in cases before the International Court of Justice in the Hague regarding the disputes on the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. FR Yugoslavia (1993-2000); Croatia v. FR Yugoslavia (1999-2000) and Legality of the Use of Force (FR Yugoslavia v. Belgium and others (1999-2000). He was Chargé d’ Affairs of the Yugoslav Embassy in Netherlands (2000-2002).

In September 2004, he was elected for Vice-Dean for Study Affairs of the Novi Sad Faculty of Law.

Area of academic interest: dispute settlements in international law, state responsibility, international traffic law, environmental law, human rights, EU law.